Bill Moseley wrote on 07/06/2004 12:41 PM:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:57:42AM -0700, Peter Karman wrote:
>
>>There's probably a better way, but I just do a search I know will return
>>everything:
>>
>>foo=(not ?)
>>
>>where foo is a metaname in my index where I know the ? character is not
>>present.
>
>
> Can that work? If "?" isn't in WordCharacters it would be removed
> from the query and then you wouldn't have any query words and swish
> should complain.
>
true. my WordCharacters list is fairly long, including most punctuation
(since I need to index code examples, etc.).
> My favorite is:
>
> not asdlalkdiwis93js
>
ah, but let us not forget the sublime:
not qwertyasdfgh
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